good afternoon. it's tuesday, march 20th. here's what's happening. the republican race in the land of lincoln. not without a gaffe -- >> i don't care what the unemployment rate will be. it doesn't matter to me. >> or two. >> i believe the economy is coming back, by the way. it's had ups and downs. >> have no fearful no day off for rick santorum. did i give anybody the impression that i was getting out of this race any time soon? i'm be sure you're quite getting the flow of this. >> in this illinois homecoming.

>> if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. >> don't worry. we would not miss a moment. good afternoon. voters are going to the polls in the land of lincoln this afternoon and the republican candidates are bringing the illinois from davenport to decatur waiting to see how it plays out in peoria tonight. at stake, 54 delegates in the battleground of the midwest. a test of appeal to urban suburban and rural vote state w unemployment, it is the economy, stupid. and that may be just the word for the latest gaffe by rick santorum. >> i don't care what the unemployment rate will be. it doesn't matter to me. my campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates. there is something more

foundational that's going on here. >> yes. that something more foundational may be the tremors before santorum's campaign collapses. as for santorum's rival, we know mitt romney doesn't care about the poor but apparently he does care about the unemployed as he pounced on the remarks at his very next appearance in illinois. >> one of the people running also for the republican nomination said he doesn't care about the unemployment rate. that doesn't bother him. i do care about the unemployment rate. it does bother me. >> cue santorum doing the walkback of shame trying to make nice with the jobless. >> of course i care about the unemployment rate. i want the unemployment rate to go down. i'm saying my candidacy doesn't hinge on it. >> it hinges on controlling pornography and the scourge of birth control. in case you thought his slip-ups would end his race, he had a bit

of good news for his press detail. >> did i give anybody the impression i was getting out of this race any time soon? i'm not sure you're getting the flow. we'll be around a while. you all have gainful employment for the time being. >> of course, newt gingrich's are the luck he whiest of all. going town to town, zoo to zoo. when the big bear wasn't petting an he will fan or getting roared out by a dinosaur, he was down in louisiana pitching a paper per view debate with the president, of course. >> we ought to debate on pay-per-view and we ought to charge $10 to watch the debate. and it ought to go on a charity over a mutual choice. it and will be the largest fund-raiser in the country. >> if you make it to the nomination, i will pay $100 for that smackdown. it will be fabulous to watch. let's bring in our panel.

the blogger for the "huffington post." and in a special new york appearance, msnbc political an list and all around genius, the washington bureau chief and with us also, the new york daily news columnist. david, i have to begin with you. rick santorum said he doesn't care about the unemployment rate because this election is about the fight for freedom. that's what he said. talking about freedom. he doesn't want freedom in the bedroom and he has plans to outlaw pornography as well. i'm beginning to be confused about what the foundation of freedom is for rick santorum. it's pretty simple. liberty. >> what does that mean? >> it means freedom. >> as you know, mr. santorum doesn't want freedom in the bedroom. he doesn't want people -- >> he wants liberty. you're getting confused here. >> so it is the etymology of the word i don't understand. >> funny thing is everything trice to be both.

a social conservative talking about the opposite of populism. basically, puritanism in a way. and it gets confusing. he overlaps his message. he doesn't know what his true constituency is and it is part of the core of the republican party. people say just leave us alone. that's a grover norquist montra. leave us lube with you we won't leave you alone. if you want an portion, we'll stick something inside of you. if you are a man and you want to live with a man, we'll make it very hard for you. so they have this internal conflict. i think now it is just totally embodied in rick santorum. he is the gop. this is marvelous. >> that was a brilliant description. do you understand the phenomenon of santorum when he does as david say, talk about freedom. he only means freedom in very limited terms. >> well, on the economic side. i think what rick santorum was very inartfully trying to say

with that line was, a, his campaign does not go away if unemployment fixes itself over the summer. he is trying to suggest, look, there are other problems. we still have to get obama out of the white house. again, inartful but he follows up with a brilliant point. talking to mitt romney he said this is guy who thinks it is a conservative position to want to affect unemployment. the president doesn't create jobs or fix the economy. that's not a conservative position. that speaks to his economic principal. >> i've been listening the last six months to blaming the president will. >> i think you would also blame the administration for its entire policy. the energy policy. >> do you have the -- >> he's trying to drive distinction between himself and mitt romney and he's trying to say i am the conservative choice. i am the real conservative who doesn't think it's up to the president. >> until it suits him.

but he has a plan, a tax plan which he touts to give preferential tax treatments. so that's picking winners and losers where they argue that obama -- it is an economic policy. >> no, that's a great argument to make. a valid point. that's a nuanced point to say -- >> okay. hang on with your nuance for a moment. dr. peterson, romney has outspent santorum 7-1. he is ahead in the polls and everyone expects another win. can you or anyone else summon any enthusiasm for this dumb, sorry, dull, i men, dull mathematically successful candidate? >> no. in fact, there is not much enthusiasm amongst republican primary and caucusgoers, period. so no, there is no way to get more these yam behind romney. what he is trying to do is inundate the low percentage turnout folks that will come out

and vote in this primary and shape their sensibilities through a lot of negative ads. and i guess he can continue to do that. at some point mr. romney will have to pivot and start to say things that are more substantive and more constructive about what he can and will do that is somehow distinct or better than what president obama has been doing. >> i want you to hear what mitt romney has said. he is clearly having some difficulty talk b the economy. here's a statement of his in illinois on monday. listen to this. >> i believe the economy is coming back. we'll see what happens. it has had ups and downs. the economy always comes back after a session, of course. the problem is this one has been deeper than it needed to be and a slower recovery than it should have been by virtue of the policies of this president. >> was that a recommendation for president obama? >> this is problem he has. if he talks about, if he roots for the economy to be bad, he is

unpatriotic and it is not a way to get votes. if he acknowledges what people are segregation, that there is a turn-around, he has to divorce the president and say if i were president, actually the bailout of detroit would have worked a lot better even though i didn't want to do it this way. if i were president, we would be at 6% unemployment faster than under obama. it feeds into people who really don't like obama who want to believe that. to the independents, i think it has a little snake oil feel to it. >> it does. >> i think mitt romney needs to give a speech where he says, i am the worst politician of all time. i am a tech no democrat. i am not good at this. i am bad at selling my policies. i'm bad at giving speeches. you should want me to be bad at politics. because politics and politicians are what's wrong with this country. i'm telling you, this speech

would be huge. >> don't try that. >> dr. peterson, what's your reaction to that brilliant speech delivered on behalf of mitt romney? >> to be honest with you, she just gave what i think is one of the smartest strategy for the romney camp to consider. the problem with that argument is that we do need someone with political savvy to manage this country both domestically and abroad. so this is the thing. romney is in the same space that the obama administration has found themselves in previously. they tried to make the case that it would have been a lot worse. now they're saying the economy could have recovered more quickly if i was in control of it. so sc is on to something but i think you have to everybody it differently. we do need a politician running this country. mitt romney needs to concede that he is not a very good one. >> thank you. if we had any advice for mitt romney, it would be to employ sc

immediately. >> call me. >> hang around. i want to do some business with you in a moment. coming up, more on the new book about the president. it is called "showdown." >> hypothetically speaking, at the end of the day, has your husband ever come home and said to you, oh, that john boehner, what an idiot. >> it is never happen. never, ever. he is always upbeat. particularly about congress. >> how can you not be upbeat? choose control.

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one of the favorite guests of this broadcast has a new book out today and we thought that was reason enough to match up some of his greatest hits on our broadcast. a cornucopia of david kosh. >> i don't buy bread but i know lots of owners of agribusinesses. and newt gingrich with his grand i don't think at this becomes even large he. he does look like the ned beaty character. the dirty harry type of moment when he would say do you feel lucky, punk? i think the obama. it is not just an open book. it is an open sewer. squealing like a pick. >> stop!

i'm sorry. even watching it is too much for me. david corn is back. this new book is called "showdown" the inside story of how obama fought back against boehner, cantor and the tea party. i've read it. it is fascinating. one of the things i took away was a very different impression of the president. we keep being told he is aloof, cautious, like a lecturer to some extent. in this book you describe him as something of a rick taker. how? >> i think to begin with, i think the president is a very complex fellow and has a lot of facets to his personality. it is very easy given any media narrative to focus on one at the expense of others. if you look at thing like the bin laden raid is the best example. the decision to go to war in libya. these are instances when he overruled the advice, or went over it from joe biden, bob gates and other top national security people to do something that was rather risky. >> it wasn't just in foreign

policy. you point out that on the grand debate, the grand bargain debate with boehner, the president was being advised not to go so far. yet again he was prepared to take risks. >> he is a fellow prepared to take ricks after a certain amount of due diligence. maybe that's the lawyer training in him. and he has a very long and steady and calm strategic overview of what he's doing. so you know, people ask me, what was the big surprise in doing this book? this book looks at a particular period of the white house. from the mid-term elections in 2010, a low point to the start of this year when he sort of got h his groove back. i saw the president who doesn't get buffetted by the cable debates of the nanosecon or the political crises of the moment. but sort of picks a course and has an internal fortitude, a

steadiness about that. but stick to that course. maybe we should do this, maybe we should do that, others say. >> fox news are a little upset with you, as you know. you make a claim that in a meeting with a labor official, fox news was blamed for pushing the mythology that the president is a muslim. brett by aer has said ever call muslim. asking islam or isn't he? about the president? what is your reaction to the fox news condemnation of your text? >> while they're reacting to obama, they're not condemning me. i have the notes from the meeting. no one has said this didn't happen. this is in december 20, 2010. it was a nightmare for the democrats. >> he was sort of complaining about the political culture and saying that it has driven to the right by fox news. where people, he says, fed by

fox news. you're 24/7 that obama is a muslim. he was not saying that fox news 24/7 says obama is a muslim but that's how fox took it. i went back and did the research this morning. i can tweet this out. david corn dc after the show so people can see the link. there are plenty of instances where people on fox either defended the view that he was a muslim, suggested that he was a muslim. and you had time where brett bair. i like brett. i think he is one of the better reporters at fox news. when he and others have validated or explained why people believe this in a way to sort of advance the notion, rather than shoot it down as being nonsense. so i think brett is on the wrong side of this debate. >> one of the things that we've repeatedly suggested on this broadcast is that eric cantor is machiavellian behind speaker boehner. in the book you talk about that discussion where boehner according to your book was being

threatened by cantor with a rebellion. >> he walked out with the reduction plan quite. the second time has been written about. even the past few days. the first time what happened was they were about if they didn't come one all the revenues that they promised, they would have to cut back on the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. as that was happening, friends of boehner's in the house, house moderates, moderate republicans, went to boehner. had a meeting with him and said, do you know what? eric cantor is running around town, our caucus, and saying you're going rhino. republican in name only. the worst insult you can hurl at a republican conservative. they said you're too far over the tims of your skis. if you keep going down this path, he will be there to lead a mutiny against you. what did boehner do? he dropped all talks with the president and bolted. >> that shows you the power of eric cabotor, also known as

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just hours ago we learned that a florida state attorney is impanelling a grand jury to examine the killing of an unarmed teenage boy which could mean possible criminal charges against the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot him. the justice department is also now investigating why george zimmerman reportedly a serial 911 caller pursued, shot, and kill trayvon martin. despite 911 officials telling him to stand back. zimmerman has claim self-defense under a florida law that allows a person to stand his ground if he believes himself in ill in any event peril. a version of events that the chilling 911 tapes appear to contradict. joining us now, miss moore. >> good afternoon, martin. thank you for having me. >> thank you. there are now two investigations

into this terrible incident. and as the days pass, we keep hearing evidence which suggests that this young man did absolutely nothing to provoke the attack. a witness has said today, that she was on the phone with trayvon at the time and he told her that he was being followed. what possible explanation is there for why this young man was shot at. >> marine corp, just let me tell you that these are kind of vigilante laws and arguments are popping up all over the country. and while we really do respect a real genuine right to self-defense, and we certainly respect neighborhood watch programs. i think what we're beginning to see with some of these laws like what we have in wisconsin, and this florida stand your ground law and a castle law where your home is your castle so no matter what, you're able to use deadly

force against someone is something that is egregious and grown out of this notion that they are no holds barred with your right to bear arms. i do, i'm very grateful that the justice department and the judges in florida are willing to look at this. we have absolutely got to draw a line in the sand around legitimate neighborhood watch activities and self-defense programs and actual just straight out murder of a young teenager. >> a number of our viewers who twitter seem to be suggesting this is the price that a young black man has to pay. simply by his color, that he must be covered in suspicion because he walks to buy some candy. >> well, martin, i'll tell you. this young teenager from media reports was in a gated

community. a community where there weren't many african-american teenagers. so on the one hand, we can understand that mr. zimmerman might have been suspicious. but other reports that have demonstrated that this young man was being pursued and wasn't really doing anything to draw gun fire from mr. zimmerman is extremely suspicious. that's why i think it is extremely important to have law enforcement investigate it. >> even as you speak and you and i have this conversation, the press conference is going on at this very moment with colleagues from the house who are talking about the justice department's investigation. is it really appropriate for a man who allegedly shot this 17-year-old young man to death, is it appropriate for him still to be at large? >> well, i can tell you that there are different kinds of justice. in the african-american

community, you're often presumed to be guilty before you're found to be innocent. i don't want to second-guess what the police department has done and mr. zimmerman's rights but i can tell you that justice is not the same in every aspect of our neighborhoods and our communities in this country. >> sadly a long way to go. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. back to the race for 2012. here are the top lines. behind every good man. >> i don't care what the unemployment rate will be. it doesn't matter to me. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. >> of course i care about the unemployment rate. >> he doesn't care about opportunity employment rate. i do care. >> what i said was that the unemployment rate, it didn't matter what it was between now and election time. >> these pancakes are something else. >> occasionally you say some things that you wish you had a do-over. >> the words out of my mouth were, if you want a conservative, you must vote for

mitt romney. >> i approved this message. >> i believe the economy is coming back, by the way. >> i've got one thing to say. get out! >> i was not quite will noting to that. >> i don't see how a young american can vote for, well, can vote for a democrat. >> did i give anybody the impression that i was getting out of this race any time soon? ? have i given you the impression -- >> i have a personal preference for her to be the first lady. >> i web to my wife and i said i'm thinking about running for president. we need to pray about that, honey. she said no we dome. there's no possible way god wants to you run for president. >> he is completely supportive of women. i think women have nothing to fear when it comes to contra acceptives. he will do nothing on that issue. the biggest joy when you're married, you're always about how

you could have done better. ? she was in the second grade and i was in the fourth grade and we've been going steady ever since. >> i love it that women are talking about leaving their children with huge burdens. >> i went to target. i thought i was under cover. sns has your husband ever come home and said to you, oh, that john boehner. what an idiot. >> he is always upbeat. particularly about congress. >> joining us now, our star studded panel of experts. msnbc contributor, and abby huntsman livingston. the daughter of former gop candidate governor jon huntsman. apologies to darrell issa because you're both women and both clever. >> we're going to talk about viagra. >> stop now. >> we've got first ladies everywhere. we've got the president's wife appearing on dave letterman.

calista selling books about an elephant. what is the thing you've been most interested in? what have you learn most about the first wives? >> for me, it is about mrs. santorum's love of shooting and guns. >> these wives are wonderful ladies, as you've seen. like you just showed, there is a new gaffe every day. >> they can provide a personal side to the candidates that people don't see. and so i think they are only helpful right now. >> what you're saying is they're more intelligent and more sensible. >> that's what you're saying. crystal, rick santorum is really leaning on his wife, as you know. she's having to go on to tv and kind of defend him and say he's not really worried about contraception even though you and i know that he would leave to it states that ban contraception. and she is walking him back from some of his other gaffes. is she his greatest asset? >> i would say so. it like the, see, i don't hate

women. i have a wife. she loves me. i love her. see, i don't hate all women. and it is interesting to me, the way that she said that. the, you know, he's not going to do anything on that issue. it was almost like, i'll see to it that he's not going to do anything on that issue. but yeah. to abby's point, you watch these women and romney, karen santorum, i love the president but how amazing is michelle obama? i look at this and i think gosh, we need more women in office. these women do a phenomenal job. they totally connect to people better than their husbands. >> what i think is the most, president obama is struggling the most. and i think ann romney is what he needs. he's done everything to connect and he just can't connect. >> your father's failure to since is down to the fact that it was your mom's fault. >> exactly. >> one of the thing we have to focus on, the fact that

republicans are doing thing at the moment which appear to be negative toward women. we know that in tennessee, a bill would require the names of all doctors who provide abortion services to have their names published. why not just put a target on their name on a website and have a map. why this? >> i think it is a very personal issue. i don't think it's one the government needs to get involved with. it is really unfair to women. it is like we're being targeted. i think that's also why women need to be more active in running for office and speaking out. >> but crystal, we know about the blount amendment. we know that the attempt to introduce the proposal for a transvaginal probe. we know about rick perry's proposal. these republicans do have a problem. >> and mitt romney said he would defun planned parenthood as well and box mcdonald is a possible vice presidential pick.

i don't think this issue is going away as they go state to stay, whoever ends up being the nominee, it looks likely to be romney will get press. governor romney, where do you stand on transvaginal probes? if you look at the polling, mitt romney is trailing the president by 20 points. john mccain lost by 13 points. if you look just at women who are of child bearing age, he is losing to the president now by 30 points. so he is going to have to do a lot more than just bring out his wife on the campaign trail to convince women that he is worth supporting in have no. >> the narrative will move to the middle. the longer the primary goes on, the harder for romney to get that message to the independents. ? allot of damage has been done though. >> thank you so much. both of you. coming up, a new budget battle on could that hill. >> i believe the economy is coming back, by the way. we'll see what happens.

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his lead. >> whoever our nominee will be owes the country that choice of two futures, we're helping them put this together. each of these people running for president have all begin their various ideas and reform skin -- >> you wholeheartedly believe they will accept your budget. >> absolutely. >> congressman peter welsh is a democrat from vermont and chief deputy whip. he joins us now. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> mr. ryan proposes reducing tax rates from 35 to 25% and the lower rate of 10% and also removing the alternative minimum tax rate. how does he balance the budget without raise go any new revenues. can you explain that to me? >> it is a bold plan. the question is will it work? my view, no. it is designed to fail. there are two assumptions in the ryan budget. number one, austerity leads to prosperity. the cuts is where he'll pay for the tax cuts. >> i would invite him to have a look at europe. there's the evidence.

>> his budget is austerity in education, in basic scientific research. austerity in roads and bridges and rolling out broad band. that's not a prescription for growth. the second is doubling down in this notion when you have a big debt, the way to deal with it is by cutting taxes on the people who are in the best position to help us pay the debt. those two assumptions, austerity will lead to prosperity and tax cuts for the well off will generate growth. there is no evidence to support either of those propositions. as you mentioned, enormous evidence to indicate that those are dead end approaches. >> this plan also includes a controversial approach to medicare. for those under 55 as you know, it moves from the traditional fee for service structure in which the government pays doctors to a voucher system with government six disfor buying health insurance. will that work? and why is not that considered, quote, a government-run health care program. >> a good point. once again, this is where there's a claim that it is bold.

it is a cop-out. i'll tell you why. >> you keep using the word bold. i'm getting the impression it is bogus. that's the word. >> it is bogus and bold. you can have both. it is bold in that it is a big number, a big cut. doubling down on austerity. more tax cuts for the very wealthy. in that sense, it end up by shifting the burden on thelet he class. widening the income gap. enriching the people doing very well. so it's not a timid proposal. but it is a prescription for decline and for increasing economic inequality on health care, for instance, he wants to have a quote, bold proposal on medicare. all it does in the name of bowlness is shift the cost on to medicare recipients. it doesn't reform how we deliver health care which is absolutely essential. not only for medicare but for the entire health care system. what he should be about is moving away from the fee for

service volume drichbl system where we pay in this country, the highest rates for health care and get the least back for it. that would be real reform as opposed to simply burden shifting on to folks who are paying ever higher premiums. >> maybe he'll come up with that in his third version of the budget. thank you very much. >> we'll be right back. man: 1939 -- my parents ran across an ad for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, we've got this little hot dog cart, and it's on a really good corner. let's see if we can buy the property." and the branch manager said, "all right, i will take a chance with the two of you." and we've been loyal to bank of america for the last 71 years.

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the next time you're driving around in illinois primary returns from his home state of pennsylvania today, and that's where we find nbc's ron mott from the town of gettysburg. >> there is no word on why they're not in illinois to watch these returns in the land of lincoln, if you will.

they're coming here to gettysburg partly because they don't see a victory there today. santorum says his campaign is all that lincoln spoke about in 1863, and that is freedom. yesterday he got caught up a little bit saying he didn't care what the unemployment rate was. he clarified those remarks saying his campaign was not a single issue campaign, he says it's much bigger and all about freedom. we expect him to talk about freedom here. gettysburg is his home state. and all the stuff floating around the country they believe is incorrect. they believe this race is much tighter than the romney race would have you believe. they had a conference call to talk about that and the issues they're going to bring up with various states about delegates. we'll have to see if they're successful in that effort, but they believe right now this is a much closer race. they know that april will be a potentially tough month for them because there are three races on april 3rd and it's a long

three-week break before we see these races, so we'll see if santorum can survive april and get into the more friendly contest in may. martin? >> ron paul is still in the race, his third race for president spanning 15 years. speculation is rampant about his plans to perhaps back mitt romney and thus lead his considerable army of enthusiastic supporters to romney. congressman tim johnson is a republican from illinois who supports ron paul for president, and he joins us now. good afternoon, sir. >> nice to talk to you, martin. >> i understand you are supporting the candidacy of ron paul. the latestthe pile with 8% as against mitt romney in the lead with 37%, and of course mr. paul hasn't won a single primary or

caucus. so why are you not supporting mitt romney? >> well, i don't make any determination, martin, based on who wins or loses. i base my endorsements or otherwise on who i think is best for america. and i believe ron paul is a bastion of commitment and liberty in the midst of what is, in many cases, politics as usual. >> congressman paul released a statement today that he is highly critical of the new gop budget unveiled by congressman paul ryan. if it's true you like ron paul because of his anti-conventional stance, do you like paul ryan's budget plan? >> i haven't seen it as fully as perhaps congressman paul has. i would want to maintain a little guarded indecision until i looked at it. i support ron paul in large part because he believes in liberty. he believes we ought not to be fighting wars we can't win, that we shouldn't be spending money we don't have, that we shouldn't

be intervening in people's lives where government is not meant to intervene. and i think that's a message that ultimately is going to resound either to the benefit or detriment of america, depending how they vote. >> what is it that you love so much about oil companies that will allow republicans to keep -- to allow the oil companies to keep $40 billion in subsidies over the next ten years but republicans would prefer to fundamentally change medicare? >> well, you're speaking for republicans, you're not speaking for tim johnson, and there are a variety of issues from which i differ from my party. i've maintained again a position of look and see in terms of some of those issues. so i'm not lock step on those or any other issues. >> that's interesting, sir. so would you like there to be a closing of some of these subsidies and loopholes? would you like there, for example, to be a small tax increase on the wealthiest americans? >> well, i think the loopholes,

at least some number of the loopholes need to be carefully examined. i think the whole tax structure needs to be reexamined. i guess i would want to see how this all comes back in terms of the nuances of the issues and the specific amendments and specific bills, but i think i maintained a significant independence on that whole process. >> you have, indeed. notwithstanding your support for ron paul, sir, who do you think is going to win your home state? >> if i had to bet my house on it, my house isn't that big, but it's big enough, i would bet on mitt romney. i think he'll probably win. i'm willing to support the nominee, but if you had my choice of who the nominee is, i think ron paul has more integrity in his little finger than all the rest of us politicians combined do in our whole body. >> wow. a fairly honest review of the

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thank you so much for watching dylan ratigan. he's actually on assignment, but matt miller is here and taking his place. good afternoon, matt. >> good afternoon. we're going to follow illinois block by block on that big gop vote today. we're also going be exposing the hoaxes on paul ryan's big new budget. plus, employers who want your facebook password so they can look at the stuff when they're interviewing you for a job. we think that goes a little bit too far. the show starts right now.